REAL TIME & SPACE

RTS Residency OPEN CALL for 2019-2020

May 22, 2019

RTS is now accepting applications for our 2019-2020 residency program!

This open call is for our 2019-2020 residency program. All residencies are six weeks long. Residents receive a studio for the duration of their residency and an $800 stipend. Out of town artists will be given an additional $800 in travel and housing support. The residency studio at RTS is 170 sq ft and includes access to a communal wood shop. RTS is centrally located near BART and downtown Oakland. APPLY HERE.

Requirements for the residency:

• Work on site at the studio a minimum of 15 hrs a week
• Give an artist talk during residency period
• Create an artwork in the form of a multiple (edition of 7) for the RTS archive

RTS will dedicate one of our eight residency slots to a recent graduate of an undergraduate program or an artist without an MFA degree.  We will also award one Bay Area artist a 6-week residency in Claremont, France. The residency is part of an exchange program with Artistes en Residence. The dates for this residency are fixed: September 1st to October 15th, 2019. We are also asking that the selected artist be available for part of Oct 16th to Nov 15th to help host an exchange artist from Claremont, France. Real Time and Space will provide the selected artist an $800 stipend, plus $300 to defray travel expenses. Artistes en Residence will provide housing and a studio. Please indicate on your application if you are available and interested in this opportunity.  

To apply, submit the following: contact info, statement, and work samples with an accompanying image list. APPLY HERE.

Deadline for applications is June 18th, 2019.  

All applicants will be notified by July 31st, 2019.

Real Time and Supper

May 08, 2019

Join us for a night of dinner and entertainment! RTS is hosting a dinner fundraiser party on Friday, June 14th at 6pm. All proceeds will go directly to visiting artists and to support our international artist residency program. Delicious food by Lexa Walsh and decadent desserts by Lana Williams.

Guests will be treated to a seated buffet dinner, a site-specific performance by Cliff Hengst, and a special presentation by Kate Rhoades. Music by DJ Horse and DJ Billy Z.

Tickets are sliding scale $50 to $100. Limited seating – so get your ticket now!

TICKETS HERE!

Real Time and Supper is sponsored by:

RTS Talks: Jessalyn Aaland and Lisa Rybovich Crallé

April 27, 2019

RTS is delighted to host talks with artist in residence Jessalyn Aaland and artist Lisa Rybovich Crallé on Tuesday, May 7th at 7pm. See you there!

RSVP here!

Jessalyn Aaland is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist working across social practice, painting, and sculpture to explore how the systems, particularly the K-12 education system, function as a sites for both conformity and resistance. Her socially-engaged projects address youth and teacher audiences, often taking the form of workshops and Risograph-printed posters and zines, and have been supported with funding from Southern Exposure, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an artist-in-residence at Facebook, North Mountain (West Virginia), and Sim (Reykjavik), and is a 2018-2019 Political Power fellow at YBCA. www.jessalynaaland.com

Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Her research focuses on corporeality and embodied experience in relation to sculpture, installation, and performance – art forms that respond to the physical presence of a viewer or participant. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad including Cornell University, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Syracuse University, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the Berkeley Art Museum. In addition to her studio practice, Lisa teaches at Berkeley City College and co-organizes Heavy Breathing, an experimental artist-led lecture series. For more info: www.lisaRcralle.com and www.heavyheavybreathing.com.

APRIL/MAY Artist in Residence: Jessalyn Aaland

April 02, 2019

RTS is happy to welcome our April/May artist in residence, Jessalyn Aaland!

Jessalyn Aaland is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist working across social practice, painting, and sculpture to explore how the systems, particularly the K-12 education system, function as a sites for both conformity and resistance. Her socially-engaged projects address youth and teacher audiences, often taking the form of workshops and Risograph-printed posters and zines, and have been supported with funding from Southern Exposure, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an artist-in-residence at Facebook, North Mountain (West Virginia), and Sim (Reykjavik), and is a 2018-2019 Political Power fellow at YBCA.

RTS Talks: Joe Ferriso and Johanna Friedman

March 16, 2019

Join us on Wednesday, March 27th at 7pm for artist talks with current artist in residence, Joe Ferriso, and artist Johanna Friedman. See you there! RSVP Here!

Joe Ferriso is a San Francisco based painter and sculptor exploring the role of color and time through works which expose relationships both recorded and imagined. His primary mediums have been commercial building materials such as plywood and house paint, however, since 2019, Ferriso has been working primarily in watercolor on small note cards. Painting in a serial manner enables him to exhaust subjects and modes of depiction in a steady day by day process. Ferriso is a graduate of Cooper Union (BFA 2003) and Stanford University (MFA 2018) He has exhibited and lectured in the Bay Area, and abroad for more than a decade.

Balancing the act between meticulous planning and the repetitive “mindless” work of rhythm and repetition, Johanna Friedman uses textiles based on photography, video, text and rapid imagery, in order to cease the moment in between pattern (organized) and clutter (chaotic), where we think we can make sense of something but we are not completely sure. She earned her BFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm Sweden and an MFA in Studio Art from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been shown in numerous art galleries and museums around the world, such as Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway, Sputnik Auction in Tokyo, Japan and The Swedish Embassy in Washington DC where she was exhibited for the first time in the US. Her work is represented in 3 national collections in Sweden, among them Malmö Museum of Art.

FEB/MAR Artist in Residence

March 05, 2019

RTS is excited to welcome Feb/Mar artist in residence Joe Ferriso!

Joe Ferriso is a San Francisco based painter and sculptor exploring the role of color and time through works which expose relationships both recorded and imagined. His primary mediums have been commercial building materials such as plywood and house paint, however, since 2019, Ferriso has been working primarily in watercolor on small note cards. Painting in a serial manner enables him to exhaust subjects and modes of depiction in a steady day by day process. Ferriso is a graduate of Cooper Union (BFA 2003) and Stanford University (MFA 2018) He has exhibited and lectured in the Bay Area, and abroad for more than a decade.

Emotional.Store’s “100 Year Plan” at RTS

RTS is excited to host Emotional.Store’s “100 Year Plan” on March 13th!  Doors open at 7:30pm, event starts at 8pm.

“100 Year Plan” is a dystopian response to participating in the producer economy in the age of automation takeover. This live-cinema experience presents a performance of an online video IRL in which two “creatives” risk everything for digital success.

Running time approx. 45 min
Tickets: $5-15 sliding scale

RTS Final February Friday Fun!

February 22, 2019

Join us this Friday, Feb 22nd, from 6 to 8pm, for our February Happy Hour!  Grab some food from the food trucks outside and come hang out with us!  See you there!

RTS Talks: J Rivera Pansa and sair goetz

February 01, 2019

RTS is thrilled to host artist talks with artist in residenc Jerome Rivera Pansa and artist sair goetz on Wednesday, February 13th from 7pm to 9pm. RSVP here! See you there!

J Rivera Pansa is an Oakland-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and performance. They work in mythologizing material ability for autonomy augmenting the embedded histories beyond utilitarian functions and rigid expectations. Through objects, they narrate the potential agency of the inanimate and those predominantly seen as a secondary or the often overlooked. Their work seeks to showcase the possibilities of individual authority for actions through spaces. They received their B.A. in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley. They have shown work Rhythmix Cultural Works, Kearny Street Workshop at Arc Gallery, AS Gallery at San Francisco State University, California Center for the Arts and a collaborative piece in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Rivera Pansa is a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in West Oakland.

IG: @j_pansa

sair goetz writes instructions that queer problematic realities into speculative fictions. Their work seeks to leverage the weightlessness of language to complicate, manipulate, and annotate the weighty matters it circumscribes. sair received their MFA from the Ohio State University in 2017 and their BA from Duke University in 2011. sair has shown their work nationally and internationally and completed many residencies across the US, most recently Little Paper Planes @ Minnisota Street Projects, ACRE, Space, and the Dedalus Foundation post-MFA fellowship. goetz is currently working on performance, signage, & video pieces querying dynamics of voice and silence surrounding non-binary gender identities. They are a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland, CA.

The Fondle Tour

January 23, 2019

RTS is excited to host the Oakland performance of The Fondle Tour on Monday, Feb. 4th at 7pm!  The Fondle Tour is a three-person show presenting new work by Mitra Saboury, Nina Sarnelle and Megan Snowe in an intimate event of everyday erotica, humor and doubt. In text, video and live music, the artists provide 75 mins of physical and emotional raunch—exploring the body as a site of indulgence and disgust, obsolescence and cleaning supplies.

Past Performances:

June 11 – Zentrale, Vienna

June 13 – A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam

June 14 – Marwan, Amsterdam

June 15 – Jupiter Woods, London

August 3 – American Medium, New York

August 19 – Driveway 327, Los Angeles

Jan 5 – High Tide, Philadelphia

Artist Bios: 

Mitra Saboury works with video, sculpture and performance, with a BS in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh (2010) and MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2013). Solo exhibitions include Out_Sight, Seoul; Grand Union, Birmingham; and Smart Objects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include UK City of Culture; and The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery. Saboury is one half of Meatwreck, a photographic collaboration with Derek Paul Jack Boyle. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles, with a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a founding member of the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. In the last few years her work has been shown at Whitechapel Gallery, Hammer Museum, the Getty Center, Ballroom Marfa, MoMA (NY), Istanbul Modern, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, NADA Miami, Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Recess (NY), UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Mwoods (Beijing), Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Human Resources (LA), and featured in Frieze, Art in America, Vogue Italy, Huffington Post, SFMoMA, Creators Project, FlashArt, and Hyperallergic.

Megan Snowe works in a variety of mediums including installation, animation, text, drawing and sound. Snowe questions how we understand, strategize and quantify our immaterial and emotional lived experiences. With a BA in Russian Studies & Studio Art from Oberlin College (2008) and an MFA in Time & Space Arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2014) Snowe has exhibited and published throughout Europe, the US and online. Recently Snowe’s work has been shown at Banner Repeater (London), Custom Program (NYC), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), SOHO20 (NYC), Upfors (Portland), Sorbus (Helsinki), kunstenaarsinitiatief beyoncé (Amsterdam), Titanik (Turku), Interstate (NYC), and NURTUREart (NYC). Resent residencies include Schloss-Post (digital) and SPACE Art & Technology (London). Snowe’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Anna Magazine, Art Monthly, Rhizome, Helsinki Sanomat and Tongue, Taste, Appetite.

RTS Final Friday Fun!

Join us this Friday, Jan 25th, from 6 to 8pm, for our January Happy Hour!  Grab some food from the food trucks outside and come hang out with us!  See you there!

JAN/FEB Artist in Residence: J Rivera Pansa

January 07, 2019

RTS is excited to welcome Jan/Feb artist in residence, J Rivera Pansa!

J Rivera Pansa is an Oakland-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and performance. They work in mythologizing material ability for autonomy augmenting the embedded histories beyond utilitarian functions and rigid expectations. Through objects, they narrate the potential agency of the inanimate and those predominantly seen as a secondary or the often overlooked. Their work seeks to showcase the possibilities of individual authority for actions through spaces. They received their B.A. in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley. They have shown work Rhythmix Cultural Works, Kearny Street Workshop at Arc Gallery, AS Gallery at San Francisco State University, California Center for the Arts and a collaborative piece in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Rivera Pansa is a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in West Oakland.

IG: @j_pansa

RTS Needs You! Support Our Programming!

December 27, 2018

RTS needs you!  Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to RTS before the new year!  Donations go toward stipends for the arists in our residency program!  This 2018-19 residency cycle, we are hosting nine artists. Five of our artists are from outside the Bay Area.  Your donation allows us to offer free studio space for a month and a half, artist stipends of $800 each, and assistance with travel and housing expenses for out-of-town artists.  Your donation also helps to support our public artist talk series. In the current Bay Area economic climate, artists are especially in need of space and support and your donation will help to make a difference!  Thank you so much for considering a donation. Happy Holidays!  DONATE HERE!

RTS Final Friday Fun!

Hi Friends! Why wait til the new year to start a new tradition? RTS is having our first Final Friday Fun this Friday, Dec 28th at 6pm! This is the first of monthly happy hours at RTS on the last Friday of each month. BYO drinks. Food trucks are closed this Friday, so BYO food if you want to eat. See you then!

RTS Talks: 5/5 and Kico Le Strange

December 13, 2018

RTS is excited to host artist presentations by current artist in residence, 5/5, and RTS member Kico Le Strange, next Wednesday, Dec. 19th at 7pm.  See you there! RSVP Here!

Multimedia collective, 5/5 is dedicated to exploring Black(ness) as an idea, consciousness, reference, and embodied experience through space, language, and visual culture. Tania Balan-Gaubert uses photography, found and ready-made objects, assemblage, and video to contemplate migration, long-distance nationalism, and belonging. Troy Chew’s work explores the African Diaspora within urban culture through painting and sculpture. while also questioning the definitions of “Fine art” and “Folk Art.” Employing hand sewing, dyeing, collage and assemblage, Nkiruka Oparah builds multimedia portraits from found objects, familial images, and repurposed materials to investigate black identity, and Nigerian cultural memory as an ongoing attempt to materialize her experience of displacement.

Kico Le Strange is a powerful drag entity. Like superman her parents sent her on a space ship because her home planet was self-destructing. Le Strange found her new home in a wittle town of South Texas. Her dreams were as big as belt buckles and hair. After a ferocious battle in the land of Alice Texas America she rediscovered her passion in the Land of Cows and Kings a.k.a. Kingsville. She got a paper for completing studies in fine arts and applied to to receive another piece of paper in Califas. She has said paper and done had it since 2015. She resides in Oakland where she constantly dances, crafts, sews, makes, and creates spaces of inclusivity.

RTS Holiday Party and Open Studios

December 01, 2018

Come celebrate the holidays with us!  RTS is hosting a holiday party and open studios event on Sunday, Dec. 9th from Noon to 4pm.  There’s no better way to celebrate the holidays than with friends and lots of art!  See you there!

RTS Talks: adorie and Peter Hernandez

November 11, 2018

RTS is excited to host an event with performances by current artist in residence, adorie, and 2727 California artist in residence, Julius Smack.  Join us this Wednesday, Nov 14th at 7pm.  See you there!

adorie (they/them, she/her) is an emerging performance artist/storyteller whose work utilizes dance, writing, photography and soundscapes to externalize their inner space in an act of inviting others to encounter themselves more deeply. their work is profoundly intimate and explores their own experiences and relationships as vessels to explore larger themes of race, gender, sexuality, mental illness, temporality, love, and spirituality. she believes that we cannot break out of oppressive systems until we meet them within ourselves and that as we do, we can begin to move into becoming something else – hopefully something more free. In adorie’s words: “i hope that through my exploration of myself i can move something within you. help make a safer space for you to be and hopefully in doing so, we will feel as connected and divine as the planets around us. recognize that we too are stars and constellations – ever connected and ever expanding. defying any notion of “real time and space” and offering more possibilities of healing and connection.”

Julius Smack is the stage persona of Peter Hernandez, an American musician and performer whose work philosophizes technology and modernity. In addition to music production and keyboard performance, he composes scores for woodwind and vocal ensembles, which is performed as Julius Smack Ensemble. His performances feature dance and theater segments integrating heightened drama, pedestrian movement, and vogue dance.

2727 California Street is an art & education initiative + an artist in residence program. They are located in Berkeley, CA.

OCT/NOV Artist in Residence: adorie

October 24, 2018

RTS is excited to host October/November artist in residence, adorie.

adorie (they/them, she/her) is an emerging performance artist/storyteller whose work utilizes dance, writing, photography and soundscapes to externalize their inner space in an act of inviting others to encounter themselves more deeply. their work is profoundly intimate and explores their own experiences and relationships as vessels to explore larger themes of race, gender, sexuality, mental illness, temporality, love, and spirituality. she believes that we cannot break out of oppressive systems until we meet them within ourselves and that as we do, we can begin to move into becoming something else – hopefully something more free.

photo by vanessa vigil

Dinners Project

September 26, 2018

Real Time and Space is hosting a Dinners Project event on Oct 6th at 6pm. We hope you can join us for a potluck dinner and informal conversations around the role of artists in sparking political change.  Bring a dish to share!  Thank you for being part of our community!  RSVP here!

The Dinners Project is designed to bring together artists, community leaders, and neighbors to explore the role of art in building a strong democracy and imagining a better future. On the weekend of Oct 4-7 people will gather all across the country to break bread and discuss art and democracy. The Dinners Project is a non-partisan initiative of Creative Capital, in partnership with For Freedoms 50 State Initiative and #LoveArmy. Artists have always played a key role in how societies and cultures evolve–now is no different. In challenging times artists can lead the way. This is a time for imagination and vision. This is a time for artists. How can we stand alongside artists in creating change? What role will you play in shaping the future of our country and our democracy?

dinners.creative-capital.org

RTS Talks: Louise Porte and Gabriel Garza

September 18, 2018

The song was coming,

between the passed and the present.

Right now.

Waiting for the show.

(Still, I could spot some slight hits, I hope this will help.)

RTS is excited to host a collaborative performance/talk with artists Louise Porte and Gabriel Garza on Tues., Sept 25th at 7:30pm. Louise Porte is at RTS as part of a residency exchange program with Artistes en Residence, an artist residency program in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Louise’s housing is provided by 2727 California, a residency program in Berkeley.  Gabriel is the current artist in residence at 2727 California.

About the Artists: Louise Porte is a French artist graduate of the Clermont-Ferrand school of Fines Arts (MFA), in Clermont-Ferrand. She lives and works between Lyon and Paris. Her work includes plastic and scenic arts, using video, photography, installation, drawing and performance. She explores the boundary between reality and fiction, transposing the everyday to create new situations. Landscapes are like theatre stages, gestures like dance, wondering if something happened or is in latency.

Gabriel Garza received a B.A. in Art, and Minor in Music History from UCLA in 2017. His artwork is based around popular music, and its history that encapsulates and pinpoints cultural attitudes that have served as fuel for contemporary art practices. Mainly working in sculpture and performance, objects such as records, ephemera and promotional items, as well as the obscurities and emotions in the histories of musicians and labels, are key influences on his work. He is the September 2018 artist-in-residence at 2727 California Street, an art and education initiative in Berkeley.

About Artistes en Residence: Began in May of 2011, the project Artistes en Résidence aims support to visual artists by providing them a work space, accommodations and financial assistance.  The two main goals are studio work research and exchange between different actors of contemporary art.

About 2727 California: 2727 California Street is an art & education initiative + an artist in residence program. They are located in Berkeley, CA.